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After quickly skimming it it seems well done. Leans towards mathematical rigor, which may not be ideal for some people. On the other hand, it'd be pretty hard to avoid math: quantum computing is linear algebra incarnate.

The only thing that caught my eye as off was totally minor. They say the many-controlled-Z gate used by Grover's algorithm can be done in O(n^2) constant-sized gates with an argument-by-reference, but with that type of argument you might as well give the tight bound of Θ(n).



It's possible to have a gentle ramp-up on the math content while learning quantum mechanics. "The Theoretical Minimum" by Susskind and Hrabovsky is structured like that: They teach you the math as part of, and motivated by, teaching the physics, and the books don't lag or resort to hand-waving.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theoretical_Minimum


Note: Susskind has a follow up - Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18210750-quantum-mechani...


I should have been clearer that I was referring to both books in the series with my remarks.




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